Q-Tip Rapping in the New Budweiser Commercial?

RAJ

Is it him on the "Don't Hold Back" track?

phono13

gotta be.

RAJ

The track has ill Bollywood stabs. I wonder if he bought the record he sampled at TSL?

Pistol_Pete

Isn't it just the Chemical Brothers track he was featured on called "Galvanize"? I haven't seen the commercial, but from your description, I think it is.

DJCire

sounds like it...

mylatency

It is just the Chemical Brothers track he was featured on called "Galvanize"

Hawkeye

Was that Chemical Brothers Track never released in the US ??? It was a huge hit here in europe.


Peace
Hawkeye

Kaushik

Yeah it's that track "Galvanize" with a guest vocal by Q-Tip.

Those aren't Bollywood stabs, they're from a Moroccan song:

???That is a sample from a Moroccan record,??? Rowlands corrects. ???Everyone thinks it is Indian, but it is from Morocco. Someone gave me this record from the Ellipsis Arts label; it is amazing ??? so much energy and so raw."

The video is cool too.

DJCire

As far as I know, yes. I snatched up a copy at Virgin Mega Store (non-import)...

mandrew

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

The_Non

Without the Middle East sample, Q Tip's verse and the regular beat suck.

The fact that you guys thought it was Bollywood is weird to me. It is obviously a Middle Eastern bowed instrument. Perhaps I'm being snobbish though.

Bsides

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Toyota? Scion? Not surprising at all. Ludacris in a pontiac commercial = slightly more surprising. Rap is so big buisiness now its scary. Totally hit critical mass.

m_dejean

Without the Middle East sample, Q Tip's verse and the regular beat suck.

The fact that you guys thought it was Bollywood is weird to me. It is obviously a Middle Eastern bowed instrument. Perhaps I'm being snobbish though.

Yes indeed. I don't hear the Bollywood connection either. 'Galvanize' is a lacklustre effort from all parties.

faux_rillz

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

mylatency

The video is cool too.

krumping meets lil warriors meets um city of god, the lite version though?

lol

mandrew

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

BreakSelf

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

Would it make you feel better to know that Toyota is paying them in book stores?

mandrew

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

Would it make you feel better to know that Toyota is paying them in book stores?

yes

faux_rillz

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

Okay, let me rephrase: only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric and unaware enough to have missed it when Mos Def's music appeared in a Nike commercial five years ago, or not to have seen ads for those Miller-sponsored concerts that Talib appears at.

Honestly dude, if you find this "surprising," I just don't know.

Guzzo

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

Okay, let me rephrase: only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric and unaware enough to have missed it when Mos Def's music appeared in a Nike commercial five years ago, or not to have seen ads for those Miller-sponsored concerts that Talib appears at.

they should try to look dignified and promote crack sales

faux_rillz

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

Okay, let me rephrase: only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric and unaware enough to have missed it when Mos Def's music appeared in a Nike commercial five years ago, or not to have seen ads for those Miller-sponsored concerts that Talib appears at.

they should try to look dignified and promote crack sales

What are you talking about?

Guzzo

now that that's been settled, what's up with mos def & kweli rhyming for toyota (or some other car company)? even if you don't like their music, you must agree that this is a surprising move

Only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric.

alright i'll spell it out for you. their entire career is based on keeping it real, being independent, going against the large corporate culture blah blah... and that's why they have some fans. doing these commercials is a move that is alienating their fan base. so in this case, it seems like selling out is actually a bad business move. that's why its surprising.

Okay, let me rephrase: only if you were foolish enough to have ever bought their rhetoric and unaware enough to have missed it when Mos Def's music appeared in a Nike commercial five years ago, or not to have seen ads for those Miller-sponsored concerts that Talib appears at.

they should try to look dignified and promote crack sales

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about rappers keeping it faux_rill

mandrew

Honestly dude, if you find this "surprising," I just don't know.

if it was coming from anyone but you...

faux_rillz

Honestly dude, if you find this "surprising," I just don't know.

if it was coming from anyone but you...

your hatting has become stale

So you acknowledge its accuracy but choose to disregard it because of its source?

Not hatting at all--just marvelling that you think these dudes lending their name and music to a car company is such a shocker. I'm all for them doing so.

mandrew

Honestly dude, if you find this "surprising," I just don't know.

if it was coming from anyone but you...

your hatting has become stale

So you acknowledge its accuracy but choose to disregard it because of its source?

no. it seems like you to ignore facts a lot of times just to continue silly internet debates.

to be fair, i haven't been to a kweli concert since the 20th century so i missed those miller sponsored affairs and i don't know what nike ads youre talking about. so if blackstar have been schilling for corporate sponsors for a while now, i missed it and id see how these toyota campaigns arent that surprising... but them selling out in the first place is surprising for reasons mentioned above.

faux_rillz

Honestly dude, if you find this "surprising," I just don't know.

if it was coming from anyone but you...

your hatting has become stale

So you acknowledge its accuracy but choose to disregard it because of its source?

no. it seems like you to ignore facts a lot of times just to continue silly internet debates.

to be fair, i haven't been to a kweli concert since the 20th century so i missed those miller sponsored affairs and i don't know what nike ads youre talking about. so if blackstar have been schilling for corporate sponsors for a while now, i missed it and id see how these toyota campaigns arent that surprising... but them selling out in the first place is surprising for reasons mentioned above.

Look, dude, I don't even own a TV, would sooner be caught dead than at a concert with Kweli on the bill, and have no particular interest in either act, and yet I managed to be aware of both of those things... Talib, in particular, seems to pop up in a lot of efforts at Scion-esque branding.

I agree with you that these two guys are primarily in the business of selling an image, but that image has long since ceased to be one of defiant anticommercialism.

mandrew

so do you get all your info from the blogosphere?
jk. cool, peace.

faux_rillz

so do you get all your info from the blogosphere?

Worse: from SoulStrut

grandpa_shig

dude, you dont own a tv?

that's it. ive had it with you

faux_rillz

dude, you dont own a tv?

that's it. ive had it with you

We were through the minute I learned that you'd been wearing the same jeans for a year, poptart.

p_gunn

It is just the Chemical Brothers track he was featured on called "Galvanize"

i've got this on 12" if anyone wants it... came out over a year ago if memory serves...